The weather is very good today, and the sky above the village of Pukhov is as blue as water. On a small dock near the lake, a group of workers with bare upper bodies are busy carrying goods in the warm spring breeze, and the fat-bellied southern businessmen are carrying goods.
An old man dressed as a butler was talking in broken Delarian, and the sailors' complaints while cleaning the deck and the fishermen's chatting while drying their nets made this scene quite vivid.
The size of this pier is certainly not comparable to the pier area in Coldwater Port City on the west coast, but it is still large enough as a pier beside an inland lake. Shade even saw a few travelers playing around a wooden box at the pier.
Rhodes card, he resisted his curiosity and did not walk over. Instead, he walked towards the businessman Kasonlik who did not understand the language and the man dressed as an old butler:
"Sir, do you need a translator?"
He asked the businessman in proficient Kasenlik, and the latter wiped his sweat with a handkerchief:
"That's great. I'll pay you 10 pfennigs."
1 krone is equal to 7 euros, and 1 krone is also equal to 95 pfennigs. Although these three currencies are the main currencies of Kasenlik, due to the chaotic currency relations before the founding of the United Kingdom, there are other currencies besides the three mainstream currencies.
As well as other currencies. Among them, the currency value of "copper pfennig" is one-thirtieth of a pfennig. This kind of currency has no paper currency and is a copper-like coin.
According to the exchange rate conversion, 1 copper pfennig is about 1.4 pence, and 10 copper pfennig is almost more than 1 shilling. According to the price of translation, it is neither high nor low. Of course, if Shad is not decent
For dressing up, he might only get one copper.
What the southern merchants were trying to communicate with the steward was that the price of ale shipped from Carsenlick would be increased by a quarter per barrel due to the high tariffs imposed by Delrayon during customs clearance. And that
The butler of a local viscount in Green Lake City tried to make the businessman understand that they had never raised a price for this reason in their business for so long.
The housekeeper did not doubt the merchant's integrity. They were all acquaintances. He just couldn't accept the sudden price increase. But while the merchant apologized through Shade, he also said helplessly that this was beyond his control:
"This is the second boat trip I've taken since the beginning of spring this year. Apparently at the end of the month of the Wind Rises, the tariffs on alcohol are still normal."
"That's because at that time, we had not yet decided to negotiate in the Green Lake area, nor had we decided what cards we would use as our cards."
This was what Shade added in addition to the translation. Both the businessman and the old housekeeper took it seriously. They used not very civilized sentences and scolded the politicians in two languages. Then with Shade's mediation, they reluctantly reached this point.
A business with a price increase.
The old housekeeper went to arrange the carriage and left in a hurry. While the fat businessman was paying the bill happily, Shade was also curious and asked the question he wanted to ask:
"Sir, I just saw people from the church in the village. Are there so many clergy in this small village?"
In fact, he didn't see it at all.
"There was originally only one elderly priest in the village. I heard from the villagers that a group of clergymen came from the city the evening before yesterday to preach in the countryside. They seemed to be from the Peace Church. They temporarily stayed in the east of the village.
I have been taking a boat to the Central Island of Green Lake every day for the past two days. When my boat came this morning, I happened to see them taking a boat to the Central Island of Green Lake. Isn’t there no one on that island anymore? "
The businessman didn't think too much and told Shade these things.
"The church has indeed landed on the island. I don't know what they will find."
Xia De thought in his mind, and after accepting his reward, he asked with some doubts:
"Since you want to travel on the trade route between Carsenlik and Delarion, why didn't you prepare yourself a translator? Language barriers will delay a lot of things."
"I know it too. I had a translator when I boarded the ship. When I was randomly inspected at the Carsonlik Pier on the other side of the lake, contraband was found on the guy's body, and then I didn't have a translator."
He told Shade with a grimace what kind of contraband it was:
"A collection of poems complaining about the arrogance and lewdness of the Anjou royal family, the House of Lords squeezing the people, the nobles lying on the people to suck blood, and the civil servants being fat-headed idiots. I really don't know why he wants to cause trouble for himself like this. I think he usually
There is no abnormal behavior... I heard that someone deliberately distributed this kind of book in Michaela Blast Furnace City. It is getting more and more chaotic... I won’t say it anymore, I will go too.
Arrangements have been made for unloading. Thank you for your help and wish you a happy life."
He waved goodbye to Shade, leaving the sighing stranger standing alone on the pier looking at the spring lakeside scenery.
Shade did not stay on the pier for too long. After confirming the status of the church, he left the pier along the lake shore. After walking to a secluded place where no one was around, he first put away his shoes and coat, and then walked in
Into the lake.
"Really cold!"
Shivering, he dove into the water. Relying on the "underwater breathing" spell, Shade didn't even have to occasionally show his head to breathe. Like a big fish, he kept swimming towards the depths of Green Lake.
While observing the biological community in the lake under the water's surface, he also did not forget to pay attention to whether there were any fish that Mr. Edmond wanted.
Sure enough, since there are no unfinished fish in the local black market, it is still a bit difficult for Shade to find it with his own eyes. Fortunately, Granny Natalie gave him bait that can lure the unfinished fish, and he waits until he is sure that it will be very close to leaving the shore.
It was far away and there were no boats nearby, so Shade took out the bait from the sealed small bottle.
The pill-like bait slowly released its flavor in the water, and Shade kept moving toward the center of the lake. He waited patiently for a while, and then there was movement from the deep lake bottom. Shade closed his eyes and listened.
What I heard was not the heartbeat of fish - the undead fish is half-undead, so it also has a heartbeat:
"What's coming? The heartbeat is very powerful, but the heartbeat rate is only ten times a minute, right? What is this?"
In the water, the line of sight would be severely obstructed, so when the human-shaped thing got closer, Shade could see its entirety.
It was a monster with a fish head and human body, with dull blue-gray scales on its body, sharp claws on its limbs, and extremely sharp teeth in its open mouth. Between the upper and lower rows of teeth, there was another one in the mouth that could shoot at
A long gray tongue that extends outward.
"Flocculant?"
Shade thought subconsciously, and then realized that this was not the fish-man he had seen. He just reacted and immediately realized what he had encountered:
"Water ghost?"
Water ghosts are relatively common undead creatures. They are born from the bodies of drowned people and have some characteristics of fish due to the influence of water. Apart from their habit of living in water, they are not much different from ordinary resurrected corpses commonly seen on land.
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This kind of monster is very flexible in the water and is almost indistinguishable from a fish when swimming quickly. They usually like to lurk in the water, waiting for the arrival of prey. Attacking lone small fishing boats is also a way for these monsters to hunt.
Of course, water ghosts can also walk on land, but this will greatly reduce speed and strength, so this situation is rare.
Among the "Three Evil Gods of Coldwater Port" that Shade heard about in Coldwater Port, the believers of the "God of the Drowned" like to control this undead creature. The water ghosts and the murlocs protected by the "Lord of the Scarlet Spiral"
The species is a feudal relationship.
At this time, Shade was not surprised at all when he saw the water ghost attracted by the bait. Instead, he smiled and quickly closed his mouth to prevent him from sucking in the water.
Green Lake is the main habitat of the semi-undead creature "Rollfish", and of course real undead such as water ghosts will be born. Although the church cleans up regularly, it is not uncommon for it to encounter one or two.
And since you have encountered a water ghost, it means that there must be a "rotten tail fish" nearby. This kind of fish likes to chase around the water ghosts and eat the leftover food leftovers by them.
Shade was thinking that he was lucky, and the water ghost was getting closer and closer to him. He didn't prepare any silver-plated crossbows or hand crossbows for himself, so he waved his arms in the water, and four silver rings that illuminated the lake flew out, and then
It was put on the limbs of the water ghost very smoothly.
"Moonlight Slash!"
Then the arc-shaped moonlight passed under the water. After the light disappeared, the body of the water ghost that was split into two pieces sank downwards. From the body of the water ghost, a large amount of green liquid flowed out and mixed into the water.
.This is a liquid mixed with corpse oil contaminated by elements and the body fluids of undead such as "water ghosts". If Shadek collects it, it is actually an alchemy material that can be sold at a good price, just like the ones he destroyed.
"Water Ghost Brain" is the same.
"No, I will never touch this kind of thing, otherwise Mia will definitely not approach me again after returning home."
Although he thought so, he did not swim away, but chased the corpse from a distance and kept diving. After the water ghost's corpse hit the bottom of the lake, it stopped moving. Shade threw the bait towards the corpse and waited again.
After a few minutes, I saw five or six "sneaky" fish swimming over under the cover of the uneven terrain at the bottom of the lake.
"Sneaky" is not a very appropriate word to describe fish, but those fish were indeed deliberately hiding themselves. They did not notice Shad higher up, but quickly swam around the corpse of the ghoul, and then started eating this time.
Although the rotten fish like to follow the water ghost and eat the food residue of the water ghost, they will also feed on the water ghost itself.
This can be regarded as a very wonderful ecological chain.
Even under the water, there would be no accidents when dealing with a few fish. Shade waited until they started eating before catching them, and entertained himself in his mind, not knowing that Mi, who now has slightly extraordinary strength,
Ya, would you like to eat this kind of fish?
However, this time he did not use the "Light of Confinement", but used non-offensive sin chains, which penetrated the belly of the fish one after another, stringing them all together, so that Shade did not need to reach out to catch them.